#1 reason gas prices are the way they are is our conflicts in the middle east.
We need to get square with Iran and quit trying to dictate to another country what they can or cannot do, or not addressing it at all.
Get Iran straight, and then oil prices will start dropping in effect so will our gas prices.
Why are we screwing around in Libya? Why are we involved with Syria? Let them work out their own differences. Get the hell out of Afghanistan.
Then throw in, stop blocking the pipe-line. Yes I know its only a few cents per gallon, but a few cents adds up, especially to those like me who drives a truck loaded with tools necessary for work. Gas has become one of my major bills. With the economy like it is, I am doing good to keep work going. Raising prices to compensate for extra gas is not an option.
Increasing drilling is another prospect that can decrease oil prices that reflect in another penny or two at the pump. You cant overlook penny here and penny there. That is a big problem with our government in general (by the way, I am not a republican, I dont like much at all about our current government in general, all politicians are the same). We waste dollars here and there in every possible way. Then people want to point out, well if you make cuts there you are only saving a few dollars. Well, no shit, thats exactly what we need to do, trim every dollar we can trim and then it adds up to one whopping ass pile of dollars.
We import about 10 percent of our oil from the unstable regions of the middle east. Beyond that, those instabilities were need I remind you, a product of Bush's policies on tjhe region. Add to that the fact that Romney was willing to make the place even more unstable, so your assertion that Obama has caused prices to rise because of his foreign policy don't work and if they did, the other guy would have forced them to rise much more if your statement was accurate.
We were surprised by the following table from the
E.I.A. which shows the U.S. imports only about 25 percent of its crude oil from the Middle East and just 10 percent when Saudi Arabia is excluded.
It is our sense that Saudi is much more politically stable than oil traders believe. This is not to say the U.S. wont have to pay the world market price if supply is disrupted from Libya or elsewhere, however. (click
here if table is not observable).
10 percent is about it.
Therefore,it really doesn't matter what Iran does or doesn't do.
The Pipeline? you believe all of the right's imagination. The pipeline is primarily for bringing Canadian crude to our refineries on the gulf so that we can EXPORT more gasoline, not much of that stuff will ever see the inside of our gas tanks.
Gas prices might go up, not down: Right now, a lot of oil being produced in Canada and North Dakota has trouble reaching the refineries and terminals on the Gulf. Since that supply can't be sold abroad, it reduces the competition for it to Midwest refineries that can pay lower prices to get it.
Giving the Canadian oil access to the Gulf means the glut in the Midwest goes away, making it more expensive for the region.
"The price that refineries on the coasts have been paying is around $120 a barrel for months, while you had $75 to $80 a barrel crude available in the Rockies and Midwest," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
Much of the difference in gas prices between states is due to
gas taxes, not cost. But Kloza said that the center of the country might have benefited by up to 25 cents a gallon in what they were paying for gas because of the glut of oil around Cushing.
The full pipeline would increase the capacity of oil flowing from Canada's oil sands into the broader global market by up to 700,000 barrels a day, according to advocates. But adding even the 700,000 barrels to more than 90 million barrels worldwide will have limited long-term impact on prices,
Now yet again you parrot the same old refrain - drill more. You don't manage to address the facts here - I will tell you yet again, our chief export presently is gasoline, what does that mean? it means we have what could be perceived as an excess. If the price localy (in the U.S.) were higher then we would not export it. The lower the price here and the higher the price elsewhere the more likely it is that we do export. Gasoline is a fungable resource but the amount of increase of our exports that it would take to lower global gas prices is still far more than we could ever hope to produce. In short, drilling for more has nothing to do with anything, nor is Obama keeping oil companies from drilling, in fact they retain thousands of acres of leases where they have not even explored.
In short, you claim that Obama has caused the price of gas to go up and yet you cannot give us any explaination for this fantasy except falacy. This is along the same lines as when you claimed that Obama was causing you to either lay people off or not hire any new people. When I asked you for specfics we got to the actual reason, that you were not sure of what would happen next in the economy and it wasn't Obama's fault at all. This seems to be the same.
Obama has little or nothing to do with the price of fuel in the United States currently.
